Java is good for big projects but not for Machine Learning purposes (Also im C# fanboy so still will prefer C# over Java :D)

Type safe? NPE en masse.

IDE friendly? IDE support is only good because you absolutely need an IDE for this language.

It's an unwieldy, verbose mess of a language.

You need an IDE for any non-trivial project in any language.

This just isn't true. There's a lot of tooling nowadays that provides IDE-like features in text editors, or via command-line tuning. And different people work differently. Where some people use IDEs, others never leave the terminal and just use e.g. vim/emacs, a build system, and a debugger.

agreed - it's almost as bad as Java/Scala for needing a heavy IDE to make it work

Not too surprising. Java was _designed_ by ex Unix engineers at a time that the word "engineer" meant something. Now we have the cloud/web stack and _Javascript_.

The bar was low enough for Julia to sound good at the start, but it gives the impression of being "designed" "on-the-fly".

Luckily in some parts of the world engineer still means something by law, even in informatics, and one is not allowed to use it just because they went through a six weeks programming bootcamp.

Engineering implies scientific rigour and high intellect. So, no wonder software developers, usually a derided and mistreated collective, just love being called engineer...

Engineering (as in PEng in the US, but my jurisdiction just calls it Engineer) also implies liability, and a risk of losing your license if you fuck up.